Cosenza
Cosenza (Latin Consentia ) is the capital and cultural capital of the eponymous province in the Calabria region in Italy with 69 065 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012).
Geography
Cosenza is located at the confluence of Crati and Busento in 238 m altitude at the foot of the Sila Mountains.
The distance to Catanzaro is 95 km and 315 km Naples.
The neighboring municipalities are Aprigliano, Casole Bruzio Castrolibero, Dipignano, Mendicino, Paterno Calabro, Pedace, Piane Crati, Pietrafitta, Rende, Rovito, Trenta and Zumpano.
History
Cosenza was founded in the 4th century BC by the tribe of the breeding animal ( Bruttii ). During the Second Punic War, the city fell 204 BC to Rome and became a commercial center on the Via Popilia.
In 410 Alaric I should, the king of the Visigoths, may have been dead after the sack of Rome in Cosenza, and was buried with his prey in the river bed of the Busento. The grave has not been found.
Culture and sights
Built in 1100 in Romanesque- Gothic style cathedral houses the tomb of the Roman-German king and king of Sicily Henry ( VII ) from the House of Hohenstaufen, who died from the effects of a fall from his horse on February 12, 1242 Martirano and was buried here by his father, Emperor Frederick II.
Also one of the two tombs of the French queen, Isabella of Aragon, on the way back from the Seventh Crusade on January 28, 1271 in Cosenza - also as the result of a fall from his horse - died and was teilbestattet here, located in the cathedral.
On a hill are the ruins of the 5th century probably built by the Byzantines and rebuilt by Frederick II Castello Svevo.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Bernadino Telesio (1509-1588), philosopher
- Giuseppe Maria Sensi (1907-2001), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- Mark Iuliano (born 1973 ), football player
- Stefano Fiore ( born 1975 ), football player
- Damiano Quintieri (* 1990), football player
- Gianluca Marzullo (* 1991), football player